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  1. Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are highly heterogenous group of neurodegenerative diseases causing progressive cerebellar dysfunction. We report the first description of relative frequencies of the common SCA m...

    Authors: Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim, Yue Hui Lau, Noorasyikin Ariffin, Siti Hajar Md Desa, Elena Azizan, Long Kha Chin, Shahrul Azmin Md Rani, Yusnita Yakob, Santhi Datuk Puvanarajah and Bart van de Warrenburg

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:11

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  4. Essential tremor is a common movement disorder with an unclear origin. Emerging evidence suggests the role of the cerebellum and the thalamus in tremor pathophysiology. We examined the two main neurotransmitte...

    Authors: Sofie Tapper, Nathanael Göransson, Peter Lundberg, Anders Tisell and Peter Zsigmond

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:8

    Content type: Research

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  5. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 23 (SCA23) is an autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia caused by pathogenic variants in the prodynorphin gene (PDYN). The frequency of PDYN variants is reportedly very low (~ 0.1%) in s...

    Authors: Shunichi Satoh, Yasufumi Kondo, Shinji Ohara, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Katsuya Nakamura and Kunihiro Yoshida

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:7

    Content type: Case report

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  6. Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most frequent form of inherited ataxias. Vestibular and auditory assessments are not commonly part of the check up for these patients despite hearing and balance complaints. Scr...

    Authors: A. Maudoux, N. Teissier, M. Francois, Th. Van Den Abbeele, C. Alberti, I. Husson and S. R. Wiener-Vacher

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:6

    Content type: Research

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  8. The syndrome of oculopalatal tremor is a known consequence of lesions in the dentate-olivary pathway. Hypertrophic degeneration of the inferior olive is a recognized pathological correlate of these lesions and...

    Authors: Jorge C. Kattah, Rodger J. Elble, Jeffrey De Santo and Aasef G. Shaikh

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:4

    Content type: Research

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  9. There is abundant evidence for cerebellar involvement in schizophrenia, where the cerebellum has been suggested to contribute to cognitive, affective and motor dysfunction. More recently, specific cerebellar r...

    Authors: Joshua Krämer, Markus Huber, Christina Mundinger, Mike M. Schmitgen, Roger Pycha, Erwin Kirchler, Christian Macina, Martin Karner, Dusan Hirjak, Katharina M. Kubera, Malte S. Depping, Dmitry Romanov, Roland W. Freudenmann and Robert Christian Wolf

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:2

    Content type: Research

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  11. The recessive ataxia ARCA2 is a rare disorder characterized by Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency due to biallelic mutations in ADCK3 gene. Despite the pathophysiological role, available data are not univocal on cli...

    Authors: Tommaso Schirinzi, Martina Favetta, Alberto Romano, Andrea Sancesario, Susanna Summa, Silvia Minosse, Ginevra Zanni, Enrico Castelli, Enrico Bertini, Maurizio Petrarca and Gessica Vasco

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:15

    Content type: Research

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  12. Mutations in the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor Type 1 (ITPR1) gene cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 29 (SCA29), a rare congenital-onset autosomal dominant non-progressive cerebellar ataxia. The Māori, in...

    Authors: Kathie J. Ngo, Gemma Poke, Katherine Neas and Brent L. Fogel

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:14

    Content type: Case report

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  14. Nonmotor symptoms (NMS) have been increasingly recognized in a number of neurodegenerative diseases with a burden of disability that parallels or even surpasses that induced by motor symptoms. As NMS have ofte...

    Authors: Adriana Moro, Mariana Moscovich, Marina Farah, Carlos Henrique F. Camargo, Hélio A. G. Teive and Renato P. Munhoz

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:12

    Content type: Review

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  15. Disorders of the cerebellum may present with motor, cognitive, behavioral and affective symptoms. There is a growing interest in developing neuroanatomical models of symptoms generation that involve the cerebe...

    Authors: Emanuela Molinari, Maria Oto, Ashita Waterston and Natasha Fullerton

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:11

    Content type: Review

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  17. Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most common familial ataxia syndrome in Central and Southern Europe but rare in Scandinavia. Biallelic mutations in SH3 domain and tetratricopeptide repeats 2 (SH3TC2) cause Charco...

    Authors: Humberto Skott, Cristina Muntean-Firanescu, Kristin Samuelsson, Luca Verrecchia, Per Svenningsson, Helena Malmgren, Carmen Cananau, Alberto J. Espay, Rayomand Press, Göran Solders and Martin Paucar

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:9

    Content type: Research

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  18. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is usually associated with gynecological and breast cancer, lung cancer, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Renal cell carcinoma has rarely been described as an underlying malignanc...

    Authors: Sara M. Souza, Barbara O. Santos, Isadora C.A. Sodré, Ana Luiza P. Oliveira, Diogo Terrana and Mariana Spitz

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:8

    Content type: Case report

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  19. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a sporadic adult-onset neurodegenerative disease with a cerebellar subtype where ataxic symptoms predominate (MSA-C) associated with autonomic dysfunction and a grave prognosis...

    Authors: Viren H. Kadodwala, Marios Hadjivassiliou, Stuart Currie, Nicholas Skipper and Nigel Hoggard

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:7

    Content type: Research

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  20. Within the context of Clausi, Olivito, Lupo, Siciliano, Bozzali and Leggio’s (Cell Neurosci 12:510, 2019) insightful study of how prediction of theory of mind (ToM) is compromised in degenerative cerebellar at...

    Authors: Larry Vandervert

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:6

    Content type: Research

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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:10

  21. Tremor is a common side effect of treatment with lithium. Its characteristics can vary and when less rhythmical, distinction from myoclonus can be difficult.

    Authors: Ptolemaios Georgios Sarrigiannis, Panagiotis Zis, Zoe Charlotte Unwin, Daniel J. Blackburn, Nigel Hoggard, Yifan Zhao, Stephen A. Billings, Aijaz A. Khan, John Yianni and Marios Hadjivassiliou

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:5

    Content type: Case report

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  22. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), mainly performed at standard field strength, plays a role in the classification of posterior fossa malformations. In the context of early second-trimester screening, upw...

    Authors: Thomas Kau, Robert Birnbacher, Peter Schwärzler, Sandra Habernig, Hannes Deutschmann and Eugen Boltshauser

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:4

    Content type: Case report

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  23. Cognitive decline is a common non-motor feature characterizing Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 2 (SCA2) during the prodromal stage, nevertheless a reduced number of surrogate biomarkers of these alterations have b...

    Authors: Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada, Luis Velázquez-Pérez, Ricardo Ortega-Sánchez, Arnoy Peña-Acosta, Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena, Nalia Canales-Ochoa, Jacqueline Medrano-Montero, Reidenis Torres-Vega and Yanetza González-Zaldivar

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  24. CAPOS (Cerebellar ataxia, Areflexia, Pes cavus, Optic atrophy and Sensorineural hearing loss) syndrome is caused by the heterozygous mutation, c.2452G > A, in the ATP1A3 gene. Other mutations in this gene can cau...

    Authors: Ida Stenshorne, Magnhild Rasmussen, Panagiotis Salvanos, Chantal M. E. Tallaksen, Laurence A. Bindoff and Jeanette Koht

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:2

    Content type: Case report

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  25. Eye movements are frequently considered diagnostic markers indicating involvement of the cerebellum. Impaired amplitude of saccades (saccade dysmetria), impaired gaze holding function (horizontal or downbeat n...

    Authors: Kelsey Jensen, Sinem Balta Beylergil and Aasef G. Shaikh

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:1

    Content type: Review

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  26. In Patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) are often treated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex and cerebellum. However, few reports have examined effective therapeutic...

    Authors: Kentaro Kawamura, Seiji Etoh and Megumi Shimodozono

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:15

    Content type: Case report

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  27. Many children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) have focal abnormal signal intensities (FASI) on brain MRI, whose full clinical impact and natural history have not been studied systematically. Our aims are t...

    Authors: Michael S Salman, Shakhawat Hossain, Lina Alqublan, Martin Bunge and Katya Rozovsky

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:14

    Content type: Research

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  28. Focal abnormal signal intensities (FASI) on brain MRI occur commonly in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). The natural history of cerebellar FASI and their correlation with clinical features have no...

    Authors: Michael S. Salman, Shakhawat Hossain, Samantha Gorun, Lina Alqublan, Martin Bunge and Katya Rozovsky

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:13

    Content type: Research

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  31. After publication of the original article [1], the authors reported their Given Names and Family names had been incorrectly reverted so they were presented as:

    Authors: Stephen Ramanoel, Elizabeth York and Christophe Habas

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:10

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:9

  33. The cerebellum has a striking homogeneous cytoarchitecture and participates in both motor and non-motor domains. Indeed, a wealth of evidence from neuroanatomical, electrophysiological, neuroimaging and clinic...

    Authors: Charlotte Lawrenson, Martin Bares, Anita Kamondi, Andrea Kovács, Bridget Lumb, Richard Apps, Pavel Filip and Mario Manto

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:8

    Content type: Review

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  34. Joubert syndrome (JS) is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited genetic disorder characterized morphologically by unique developmental malformations of the cerebellum and brainstem (the molar tooth sign), and...

    Authors: Chelsea L. Hickey, Janet C. Sherman, Paula Goldenberg, Amy Kritzer, Paul Caruso, Jeremy D. Schmahmann and Mary K. Colvin

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:5

    Content type: Research

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  35. Spinocerebellar ataxia 17 (SCA17) is one of the most heterogeneous forms of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias with a large clinical spectrum which can mimic other movement disorders such as Huntington dise...

    Authors: Paola Origone, Fabio Gotta, Merit Lamp, Lucia Trevisan, Alessandro Geroldi, Davide Massucco, Matteo Grazzini, Federico Massa, Flavia Ticconi, Matteo Bauckneht, Roberta Marchese, Giovanni Abbruzzese, Emilia Bellone and Paola Mandich

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:7

    Content type: Case report

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  36. Cranial-nerve non-invasive neuromodulation (CN-NINM) using the portable neuromodulation stimulator (PoNS™) device has been proposed as a novel adjuvant intervention to improve efficacy of gait and balance. This d...

    Authors: Andisheh Bastani, L. Eduardo Cofré Lizama, Maryam Zoghi, Grant Blashki, Stephen Davis, Andrew H. Kaye, Fary Khan and Mary P. Galea

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:6

    Content type: Case report

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  38. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is first manifested during early childhood. Postmortem experiments have identified significantly elevated expression of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) i...

    Authors: S. Hossein Fatemi, Dean F. Wong, James R. Brašić, Hiroto Kuwabara, Anil Mathur, Timothy D. Folsom, Suma Jacob, George M. Realmuto, José V. Pardo and Susanne Lee

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:3

    Content type: Research

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  40. In traditional models of essential tremor, the inferior olivary nucleus was posited to play a central role as the pacemaker for the tremor. However, recent data call this disease model into question.

    Authors: Elan D. Louis, Daniel Trujillo Diaz, Sheng-Han Kuo, Shi-Rui Gan, Etty P. Cortes, Jean Paul G. Vonsattel and Phyllis L. Faust

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:1

    Content type: Case Report

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  41. The feasibility to administer magnetic and electric fields in a non-invasive manner to influence brain areas has attracted scientists interested in studying the neural correlates of normal and pathological for...

    Authors: Adriana B. Conforto and Dennis J. L. G. Schutter

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:21

    Content type: Editorial

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  42. Cerebellar ataxia with sensory ganglionopathy (SG) is a disabling combination of neurological dysfunction usually seen as part of some hereditary ataxias. However, patients may present with this combination wi...

    Authors: Panagiotis Zis, Ptolemaios Georgios Sarrigiannis, Dasappaiah Ganesh Rao, Nigel Hoggard, David Surendran Sanders and Marios Hadjivassiliou

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:20

    Content type: Research

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  43. Saccade slowing has been proposed as endophenotype marker in Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 2 (SCA2), nevertheless the heritability of this trait has not been properly demonstrated. Thus the present paper was aim...

    Authors: Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada, Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena, Nalia Canales-Ochoa, Jacqueline Medrano-Montero and Luis Velázquez-Pérez

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:19

    Content type: Research

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  45. To date, 43 types of Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCAs) have been identified. A subset of the SCAs are caused by the pathogenic expansion of a CAG repeat tract within the corresponding gene. Ethnic and geographic ...

    Authors: Masharip Atadzhanov, Danielle C. Smith, Mwila H. Mwaba, Omar K. Siddiqi, Alan Bryer and L. Jacquie Greenberg

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:17

    Content type: Research

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  46. The cerebellum is a vulnerable target of autoimmunity in the CNS. The category of immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias (IMCAs) was recently established, and includes in particular paraneoplastic cerebellar degen...

    Authors: Hiroshi Mitoma, Mario Manto and Christiane S. Hampe

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:16

    Content type: Review

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  47. The control of grip forces when moving a hand held object is impaired in patients with cerebellar degeneration. We asked the question whether after-effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tD...

    Authors: Liane John, Michael Küper, Thomas Hulst, Dagmar Timmann and Joachim Hermsdörfer

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:15

    Content type: Research

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  48. Hemicerebellitisis a rare acquired condition, typical of the pediatric age. A residual switched handedness may develop after remission of acute cerebellar symptoms.

    Authors: Mario Mascalchi, Matteo Lenge, Andrea Bianchi, Emanuele Bartolini, Gioele Gavazzi, Flavio Giordano and Renzo Guerrini

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:14

    Content type: Case report

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  49. Damage to the cerebellum may lead to motor dysfunctions, but also to the neuropsychological deficits that comprise the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome (CCAS). It can affect executive functions, attenti...

    Authors: Eva Bolceková, Matej Mojzeš, Quang Van Tran, Jaromír Kukal, Svatopluk Ostrý, Petr Kulišťák and Robert Rusina

    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2017 4:13

    Content type: Research

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